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title: DeepSeek
sidebarTitle: DeepSeek
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The DeepSeek model provides access to DeepSeek's language models.

## Parameters

| Parameter    | Type               | Default                                        | Description                                                           |
| ------------ | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `id`         | `str`              | `"deepseek-chat"`                              | The id of the DeepSeek model to use                                  |
| `name`       | `str`              | `"DeepSeek"`                                   | The name of the model                                                 |
| `provider`   | `str`              | `"DeepSeek"`                                   | The provider of the model                                             |
| `api_key`    | `Optional[str]`    | `None`                                         | The API key for DeepSeek (defaults to DEEPSEEK_API_KEY env var)      |
| `base_url`   | `str`              | `"https://api.deepseek.com"`                   | The base URL for the DeepSeek API                                     |

DeepSeek extends the OpenAI-compatible interface and supports most parameters from OpenAI.